The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

If the sky is dark and the moon is not too bright, and if you know exactly where to look, you can just barely see the ...

M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, with its two companion elliptical galaxies, the very small M32 ... [+] below, and larger M110 above. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via ...

Using data from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), built at the CREST campus and launched by ISRO, scientists ...

Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer) was able to show that the Andromeda Nebula was over a ...

distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as ...

Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics utilize AstroSat's Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope to uncover ...